![]() ![]() She lost prior to the third round at the Slovenia Open, the İstanbul Cup, and the US Open, where she faced Svetlana Kuznetsova. She went on to play against Jelena Janković in the first round of Wimbledon, losing in straight sets. Görges reached the third round of the Birmingham Classic, falling to Urszula Radwańska. She retired in the first round of the French Open in a match against Iveta Benešová due to heat exhaustion. Görges competed at the Australian Open, the Open GdF Suez, and the Warsaw Open, losing before the third round in each. She began her season at the Brisbane International, where she lost in qualifying to Anna-Lena Grönefeld. It was the first season that she played in the main draw of all four Grand Slam tournaments. In 2009, Görges began to play in WTA Tour events more regularly. However, she bowed out in the second round to Marina Erakovic, in straight sets.Ģ009: Consistent top-100 ranking She won her first Grand Slam main-draw match at Wimbledon, where she upset the 23rd seed Katarina Srebotnik in a three-hour, 41-minute first-round match. She made her top-100 debut in the rankings after the French Open. Her best performances were reaching the semifinals of the Slovenia Open, where she lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues, and a quarterfinal-loss to Olga Govortsova in the Cellular South Cup. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2008, Görges continued to play in a mix of ITF and WTA events. Görges made her Grand Slam main draw debut at the US Open, losing to Justine Henin in the first round in straight sets. In 2007, she won tournaments in Antalya and Bucharest and made her first WTA Tour main draw appearances, the highlight of which was a semifinal in Stockholm, where she lost to Vera Dushevina in three sets. In 2006, she won the Wahlstedt and Bielefeld tournaments. In 20 she continued to play mostly ITF tournaments. In 2005, she began her career on the ITF Women's Circuit, playing in seven tournaments and losing in the first round in five of them. She preferred hard and grass courts, and her favorite tournament was the Australian Open. She was coached by Sascha Nensel, former coach of fellow German player Nicolas Kiefer, until 2015. Her tennis idol growing up was Martina Hingis, and she is also a fan of Roger Federer. She began playing tennis around the age of five. She attended the Klaus-Groth-Schule and Theodor-Mommsen-Schule in Bad Oldesloe from 1995 to 2005, and completed the Mittlere Reife (middle-school diploma). She has one elder maternal half-sister named Maike, who also works in insurance. Julia Görges was born in Bad Oldesloe to Klaus and Inge Görges, both of whom work in insurance. She announced her retirement from professional tennis on 21 October 2020, two weeks before her 32nd birthday. She was also a two-time semifinalist in women's doubles at the Australian Open, and reached the finals in mixed doubles with Nenad Zimonjić at the 2014 French Open. She broke into the top ten for the first time in February 2018, before going on to reach the semifinals at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships. Prior to 2018, her best singles result in a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the fourth round five times. Görges turned professional in 2005, and first broke into the world's top 100 in June 2008. She won seven singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour (her biggest title coming at the year-end 2017 WTA Elite Trophy), as well as six singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. 9 in the world on 20 August 2018, and was ranked inside the top 15 in doubles, peaking at world No. A former top-ten singles player, she was ranked as high as No. Julia Görges (born 2 November 1988) is a German former professional tennis player. ![]()
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